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Most likely a P-40K assigned to a squadron of the 23rd FG, 1943-44.

Crows Nest, established on Dalla tribal lands, was declared a town in 1876.[5] Crows Nest Post Office opened on 1 July 1878.[6] A branch railway line from Toowoomba, which serviced a number of sawmills and a dairying district, was finished in 1886.[5] In December 1880 the Primitive Methodist Church purchased 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of land for a church.[7] The church opened on Good Friday on 15 April 1881.[8][9] On 31 December 1905, a new Crows Nest Methodist Church was opened; it replaced the old church.[10] In 1956 the church was remodeled. After the Methodist Church amalgamated into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became the Crows Nest District Uniting Church.[11] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crows_Nest,_Queensland

Before the construction of St Joseph’s Church, the Rathdowney Memorial Hall or Rathdowney School of Arts were used as Mass Centres for the spiritual needs of the people in the Rathdowney area. The Architect drew up the plans and construction began on the 11th of July 1929 and just 12 weeks later the building was completed. In its report, the Beaudesert Times described the building thusly: “The church is constructed of Queensland hardwood timbers in the walls and floors, with Queensland pine in the roof. The building comprises an entrance porch 11ft by 8ft, church 40ft by 23ft, sanctuary 15ft by 16ft, sacristy 9ft by 16ft. The walls are sheeted externally with hardwood chamfer boards and internally with pine lining boards. The ceiling of the sanctuary is lined with fibro-cement sheeting and covers battens and that of the church by pine lining boards. The sanctuary is divided from the church by an elliptical arch and the windows of the sanctuary are glazed with lead-light containing designs symbolic of the Crucifixion, the Holy Eucharist, and St Joseph. The glazing of the church windows is in the light rose-tinted glass. Externally, the walls are painted cream-white with brown facings and the sashes of the windows and barge boards of the gables in light stone tints. Internally, the walls are painted with a dado in brown tints and walls in French grey, and the ceilings in cream white. The roofs are finished with gables and half-timbering and ventilator dormers. The altar is a very handsome one of silky oak and the two pedestals for statues are also of silky oak.” (Beaudesert Times, September 29, 1929) St Joseph’s Church was blessed and opened on the 29th of September 1929, by Archbishop Duhig, ably assisted by the Parish Priest, Father Hennessy, and by his curate Father Tom O’Callaghan. Source: www.stmarysbeaudesert.com/our-churches/st-josephs-rathdow...